#7 V is for Vivian

#10 Is There a Doctor in the House?

David tries to borrow money from his brothers and sisters to cover a bad check he wrote at a poker game to cover a debt.

#12 Triangles

David's new roommate romances both Susan and Joannie.

#13 Double Trouble

David and Tommy hang around a laundromat in hopes of meeting girls.

#14 Mortgage Burnin' Blues

Tom throws a party to celebrate paying off the mortgage on the Bradford house. Unfortunately, the kids get into a melee when Susan punches a heckler at David and Tommy's singing appearance and Tom has to remortgage the house to pay the damages as seven of his children were arrested after a fight in the nightclub.

David waits for the results of his contractor's exam.

#16 The Bard and the Bod

David arranges for Tom to buy an engagement ring for Abby through a friend at work, but it turns out to be too hot to handle.

#24 Dear Ms. Dinah

David and Tommy fix Abby's car.

#25 A Hair of the Dog

David goes away for the weekend and gives Tommy the use of his apartment but Tommy winds up throwing a party.

#26 Author, Author!

David goes on a double date with Nancy and they come home with different stories of the same night.

#27 Much Ado About Garbage

Abby is upset when David gives Nicholas a BB gun.

#28 Hard Hats and Hard Heads

Tired of storing their clothes in the hall closet, Tom and Abby hire David to build a new dresser.

A reunion with old friends leaves David feeling unsuccessful. David quits his construction job and joins the newspaper as a copyboy.

#29 Seven Days in February

David's friend tries to convince him to go on a blind date, so he fixes David with one, but the "date" turns out to be totally unexpected...his sister, Mary.

#30 The Boyfriend

Tommy gets into trouble at school and wrongly assumes he's home-free when the principal calls David instead of Tom.

#34 Poor Little Rich Girl

David meets an attractive young woman who is the daughter of a wealthy construction man.

#35 Who's on First?

"David" sings a song he wrote himself: "Eight is Enough", lyrics by Molly-Ann Leikin, music by Lee Holdridge. This song replaced the original theme song from the next season on.

#41 The Flunked and the Funked

Nicholas and Irving, who are making prank calls, receive their own from David and Tommy.

#42 Cops and Toddlers

Joannie makes David's girlfriend jealous when she practices lines from her new play in David's apartment.

#44 Fast and Loose

David starts living dangerously after a close friend dies of a heart attack at a young age. The kids try to help and eventually David cleans up his act.

Nicholas tries to help by offering David a kitten from a litter of a stray cat he has taken in. He soon discovers that the cat is pregnant.

#51 Moving Out

David buys a new truck and agrees to sell Tommy his van.

#55 Just the Ten of Us

Tired of saying goodnight to each other every night, David and Janet decide to live together.

Tom is nominated for "Father of the Year", but his chance grows slim after David and Janet decide to become roommates.

#56 Best of Friends

David and Janet spend a night in the Bradford house when their apartment is sprayed for bugs.

#59 Dads, Daughters, Different Drummers

An unemployed David decides to open his own construction business and the whole family pitches in to help him.

#62 Marriage and Other Flights of Fancy, pt. 1

David and Janet announce their engagement but David leaves Janet and takes off on a cross-country trip when he gets cold feet.

#63 Marriage and Other Flights of Fancy, pt. 2

David and his traveling companion continue on their cross-country trip and he gets involved in a hang-gliding competition and learn a few lessons about life.

#65 The Cupid Crisis

David returns and is determined to win Janet back from her new boyfriend.

#66 I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

David and Janet set a wedding date but it turns out to be the same day Merle and Susan decided to move up the wedding day to accomodate Merle's ballplaying career move.

Nancy gets a job delivering singing telegrams and is hired to deliver one at the double wedding for David and Janet and Merle and Susan.

#69 Big Shoes, Little Feet

Tom needs a partner for the father/son golf tournament but David, Tommy, and Merle are all busy.

Nancy tries to help David's construction business by dating a local businessman.

#73 Separate Ways

Elizabeth and Mary try to fix the furnace when David doesn't have time to fix it, and try to bill Tom.

#76 Brotherhood, Sisterhood

Tom talks David into hiring Tommy as a construction worker but Tommy has to prove himself to his fellow workers by standing up to them on his own.